While installing pyinstaller, this occured : ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 2]

Question

This is what occurs when installing the pyinstaller, please help me solve this.

pip install pyinstaller

Collecting pyinstaller

Using cached pyinstaller-4.8-py3-none-win_amd64.whl (2.0 MB)

Installing collected packages: pyinstaller

WARNING: Failed to write executable - trying to use .deleteme logic

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file

specified: 'C:\Python310\Scripts\pyi-archive_viewer.exe' -> 'C:\Python310\Scripts\pyi-

archive_viewer.exe.deleteme'

Answer 1

I had a similar problem "Requirement already satisfied" with the Pillow module. I saw it in IDE, but it was broken. So I deleted the package folder in C:\Python310\Lib\site-packages and reinstalled it. You could try to do the same.